Eddie Glaude Jr., James Baldwin, and Black History
Reading Time: 15 minutes Why is achieving racial equality so hard? Princeton’s Chair of the Department of African American Studies shows us why, through the lens of James Baldwin.
Why Populism Is Toxic
Reading Time: 18 minutes How economic populism grew into a toxic stew of resentment, nationalism, racism — and the bloody riot of January 6, 2021.
Trump’s Pardon Shakedown
Reading Time: 18 minutes A personal look inside the final days and multimillion-dollar shakedowns of the Trump pardon process.
Josh Hawley Told Us Who He Was
Reading Time: 2 minutes A look at how religious nationalism — more than politics — spurred the events of January 6.
Unity Is Probably Impossible
Reading Time: 16 minutes A look at why facts, data, and truth have little to do with what we believe.
Why Is the US Senate So F**ked Up?
Reading Time: 20 minutes Why the US Senate is no longer “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” and where it went wrong.
The New Color Purple
Reading Time: 19 minutes As tech companies move from blue states to blue cities inside red states, what are the long-term political consequences?
Did We Just Witness Our Fort Sumter?
Reading Time: 20 minutes Is secession the only option left for a divided America? A reprise of our conversation with conservative journalist David French.
The Week That Jumped the Shark
Reading Time: 3 minutes 2021 kicks off with an unprecedented flood of information overload and maximum disruption. Can we process it all?
WhoWhatWhy’s Top Ten Podcasts of 2020 – Part 2
Reading Time: 3 minutes Podcasts, like radio before them, have become the conversations that shape our perception of the world. The intimacy of voices in your car, in your earbuds, or in the dark has transformed how we listen and learn.